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'''Menán du Plessis''' (born 1952) is a South African novelist and linguist.<ref name="KillamRowe2010">{{cite book|author1=Douglas Killam|author2=Ruth Rowe|title=The Companion to African Literatures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdO8dslK7MC|year=2010|publisher=James Currey|isbn=978-1-84701-019-3|page=89|chapter=Du Plessis, Menán}}</ref> |
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Her debut novel ''A State of Fear'' won the 1985 [[Olive Schreiner Prize]], and was a joint winner of the [[Sanlam Literary Prize]] in 1986.<ref name="Chrisman2003">{{cite book|author=Laura Chrisman|title=Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism, and Transnationalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gjhd4_CsoIMC&pg=PA112|year=2003|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5828-8|page=112}}</ref> |
Her debut novel ''A State of Fear'' won the 1985 [[Olive Schreiner Prize]], and was a joint winner of the [[Sanlam Literary Prize]] in 1986.<ref name="Chrisman2003">{{cite book|author=Laura Chrisman|title=Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism, and Transnationalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gjhd4_CsoIMC&pg=PA112|year=2003|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5828-8|page=112}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 16:43, 29 December 2024
Menán du Plessis (born 1952) is a South African novelist and linguist.[1]
Her debut novel A State of Fear won the 1985 Olive Schreiner Prize, and was a joint winner of the Sanlam Literary Prize in 1986.[2]
Works
[edit]- A State of Fear. Cape Town: D. Philip, 1983. Republished by Pandora Press (1987).[2]
- Longlive! Cape Town: D. Philip, 1989. Translated into German by Susanne Köhler as Das Lied der Gemeinschaft Roman.
- A unity hypothesis for the southern African Khoesan languages. PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009.
- Kora: a lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2018.
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Killam; Ruth Rowe (2010). "Du Plessis, Menán". The Companion to African Literatures. James Currey. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-84701-019-3.
- ^ a b Laura Chrisman (2003). Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism, and Transnationalism. Manchester University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-7190-5828-8.
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